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Android surpasses 70% OS Market Share – 72% to be exact, Apple at 13%.
As reported by Gartner earlier today, Apple is behind both Samsung AND Nokia for total mobile device sales, however Samsung and Apple remain the top smartphone vendors collectively capturing over 46% of the market. This placed RIM and HTC behind Apple and Samsung in 3rd and 4th positions. “Samsung’s mobile phones sales continued to accelerate, totaling almost 98 million units in the third quarter of 2012 (see Table 1), up 18.6 percent year-on-year. Samsung saw strong demand for Galaxy smartphones across different price points, and it further widened the gap with Apple in the smartphone market, selling 55 million smartphones in the third quarter of 2012. It commanded 32.5 percent...
Mobile App Analytics – Best Tips and Tools
It’s important to measure user behavior. ..and there is a variety of app analytic platforms and services providing you with good app data; to do just that. The tips to follow will help you avoid some expensive mistakes. 1) Using Analytics can help with your market research By using tools like TestFlight you have the ability to learn what your users really like and refine your app before putting it out for the world to see on the App Store. 2) Design for your Users not for Yourself Fact of the matter is, your users may not use your app the same way you do. ..and it goes...
Foap App lets you make a comissions off your friends Photos
Users can sell their iPhone images for $10 each Not only that, they can make money off their friends photos as well. Beginning next week users who invite their friends to download Foap will be able to earn a 10% cut of ALL their future sales. Here’s how it works.. Users upload or take a photo from their phone’s “camera roll” or “album” and submit it to the Swedish startup for approval. If, and when approved the images go live in the Foap Market and each sales is split 50-50 between the users and Foap. Since launching in June, Foap has been downloaded close...
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Mobile Minute – November 13th [VIDEO] Wrap-up
Mobile Minute – November 13th [VIDEO] Wrap-up...
DuoLingo launches iPhone App
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StackMob makes API Calls FREE
StackMob makes API Calls FREE You read right.. The company StackMob who provides an end-to-end platform for mobile apps is announcing today the launch of “StackMob Marketplace for third-party services, as well as changes to its pricing structure to API Calls. StackMob has announced that API calls (as of today) are FREE. Seeing as I just wrote an Article about a competitor to StackMob (Kinvey) just yesterday it’s worth saying that this will have a major impact on not just Kinvey but other start-ups as well like Parse, and others.. StackMob CEO Ty Amell said, “It doesn’t matter to us whether someone’s making a million API calls...
Push Notifications Boost App Engagement and User Retention
Yesterday I wrote an article.. “Best Tips on growing your App Business” ..and in that article I spoke a lot about Customer/User loyalty, engagement, and retention So I guess this is kind of a Part 2 (if you will) of that article. So let’s jump right into this. It seems rather obvious that push notificiations would increase engagement.. ..but how about retention? User retention as a result of push notifications doesn’t strike me as being very intuitive. Engagement, yes and here’s why. Naturally, people HAVE to either “dismiss/don’t allow” or “allow” the notification they’re receiving which would theoretically, in it of itself increase “engagement”. But what exactly is...
Mobile Minute November 12th + Weekend [VIDEO] Wrap-up
Mobile Minute – November 12th + Weekend [VIDEO]...
Best Tips on growing your App Business
“Downloads = success” This is the most common assumption in the App Business. ..but in reality, those are just vanity metrics. At the end of the day in addition to downloads you’re also looking for loyalty. WHY? Because it’s always cheaper to retain a customer/user than it is to get a new one. Ask anyone who knows a thing or two about business. The cost of acquiring a new customer is roughly 7x higher on average than that of what it is to retain a customer(user in this case). So what you really want is.. Downloads + Loyalty When you think of downloads you...